Meanings
How to pronounce "win the battle, but lose the war":
AU
To achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal.
Example: "By turning in that one assignment, you may have won the battle, but you never turned anything else in, so in the end you lost the war."
A-Z Proximities
- willow in the wind
- win back
- win by a nose
- win one for the Gipper
- win over
- win the battle, but lose the war
- wind at one's back
- wind back the clock
- wind down
- wind off
- win the day